Aerospace Programme Delivery Lead

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited; Pitstone; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite canteen

Early finish on Friday

Job summary

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited seeks an experienced Programme Delivery Manager to lead a major engineering and quality services programme. You will mobilise a multi-disciplinary team and ensure customer satisfaction, governance and delivery performance in a non-traditional project management role.

You will oversee up to 22 engineers, quality professionals and PMO resources, driving resource planning, risk management and governance across aerospace programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering engineering or technical services with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Mobilising or scaling teams of 15+ resources and maintaining governance.
• Strong customer-facing stakeholder management and commercial awareness.
• Ability to own solutions, drive delivery and manage risks and escalations.
• Knowledge of recruitment, onboarding and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead mobilisation and ramp-up of engineering and quality resources.
• Manage customer demand, capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Act as the primary customer interface for service delivery activities.
• Coordinate recruitment, onboarding and deployment of resources.
• Monitor service performance, utilisation and customer satisfaction.
• Manage programme risks, issues and escalations.
• Lead weekly and monthly governance reviews.
• Develop recovery plans for resource gaps, demand increases and delivery issues.
• Maintain programme reporting, KPIs and performance dashboards.
• Support commercial discussions, change requests and growth opportunities.

Skills

Ramp-up experience

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Ownership mentality

Recruitment knowledge

Risk management

Executive communication

Influencing skills

Organisation and governance

Aerospace/engineering experience

Job description

Safran Engineering Services UK Limited seeks an experienced Programme Delivery Manager to lead a major engineering and quality services programme. You will mobilise a multi-disciplinary team and ensure customer satisfaction, governance and delivery performance in a non-traditional project management role.

You will oversee up to 22 engineers, quality professionals and PMO resources, driving resource planning, risk management and governance across aerospace programmes.